South Carolina Constitution (1895) current:
<INTRODUCTION. At a Convention of the People of the State of South Carolina begun and holden at Columbia on the Tenth day of September, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and Ninety-five, and thence continued by divers adjournments to the Fourth day of December in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and Ninety-five. (current)
PREAMBLE. We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, grateful to God for our liberties, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the preservation and perpetuation of the same.
ARTICLE I, SECTION 2. The General Assembly shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government or any department thereof for a redress of grievances.
ARTICLE 3, SECTION 26. Members of the General Assembly and all officers, before they enter upon the duties of their respective offices, and all members of the bar, before they enter upon the practice of their profession, shall take and subscribe the following oath:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am duly qualified, according to the Constitution of this State, to exercise the duties of the office to which I have been elected, (or appointed), and that I will, to the best of my ability, discharge the duties thereof, and preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of this State and of the United States. So Help Me God." (1954 (48) 1852; 1955 (49) 23.)
ARTICLE 6, SECTION 2. No person who denies the existence of the Supreme Being shall hold any office under this Constitution.
ARTICLE 17, SECTION 4. No person who denies the existence of a Supreme Being shall hold any office under this Constitution.> 1895SC001
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1895SC001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). South Carolina Constitution, 1895, current.